Hackers deface JNU website to protest students' slogans

A group of hackers defaced the JNU website's central library home page on Tuesday evening as a mark of protest against "anti-India"sloganeering by one of the university's student bodies.TNN | Updated: February 17, 2016, 15:17 IST

A group of hackers defaced the JNU website's central library home page on Tuesday evening as a mark of protest against "anti-India"sloganeering by one of the university's student bodies.

On opening the link lib.jnu.ac.in, one was greeted with a picture of the Indian flag, Lata Mangeshkar's evergreen patriotic hit Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon playing in the background, and a terse message directed at the protesting students. The missive by "Indian Hackers Online Squad" asserted that "Pakistan will never get Kashmir".

The defacement happened just after 6pm in the evening. By 7.30pm, JNU registrar professor Bupinder Zutshi had taken cognizance of the matter. "We are aware of the matter and are inquiring into it," he told TOI.

"So, as you said 'Kashmir ki aazadi tak jang rahegi-jang rahegi'. You are thinking that you will get Kashmir just by barking in the campus of JNU," read the message, which also referenced an earlier defacement by the hacker group of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's website back in October 2014. Back then too, the reason for defacement had been the Pakistan People's Party chairman's comment on "getting back" Kashmir.

"As I also told Bilawal Bhutto that without any violence let me tell you that Pakistan will never get Kashmir. This is the truth. You have to accept it :) So anti-national elements at JNU should also accept that Pakistan will never get Kashmir," read the message.

The defaced page also carried a meme-like picture of actor Sunny Deol with a caption promising to eliminate "all Afzals". This was in response to the reported slogan, " Kitne Afzal maaroge har ghar se Afzal niklega (How many Afzals will you kill, one will emerge from every house)". Earlier in the day, there were rumours that the JNU website's faculty page had been targeted.